Asd Lighting PLC
Registered name: ASD LIGHTING PLC
Part of Asd Lighting Holdings Limited groupAsd Lighting PLC made £18m revenue and a £849k loss in the year to 30 Jun 2025. read from filing text
Asd Lighting PLC’s revenue fell 9% to £18m in the year to 30 Jun 2025, with a loss of £849k and 159 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of electric lighting equipment” and is based in Rotherham; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Rotherham, Yorkshire and The Humber
- Age
- 43 yrs · since 1982
- Type
- Public Limited Company
Part of a group. The filing indicates this company sits within a group structure, so its results may depend on intra-group trading and it may be hard to replicate independently. From the filing: “The parent company of ASD Lighting PLC is ASD Lighting Holdings Limited”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 30 Jun 2022 | 30 Jun 2023 | 30 Jun 2024 | 30 Jun 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £21.5m | £21.3m | £19.8m | £18m |
| Cost of sales | £13.3m | £13.1m | £12.8m | £11.6m |
| Gross profit | £8.2m | £8.1m | £7m | £6.4m |
| Operating profit | £740k | £453k | −£600k | −£1.6m |
| Profit before tax | £1m | £1m | £131k | −£1.1m |
| Profit after tax | £815k | £755k | £276k | −£849k |
| Profit (best available) | £815k | £755k | £276k | −£849k |
| Employees (average) | 164 | 163 | 162 | 159 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 3.8% | 3.5% | 1.4% | −4.7% |
| Gross margin | 38% | 38.2% | 35.5% | 35.5% |
| Revenue per employee | £131k | £130k | £122k | £113k |
| Profit per employee | £5k | £4.6k | £1.7k | −£5.3k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼1.1% | ▼6.7% | ▼9.4% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼7.4% | ▼63.4% | ▼407.1% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼0.6% | ▼0.6% | ▼1.8% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £8.6m | £9.2m | £5.5m | £1.9m |
| Net assets | £31m | £31.7m | £32m | £31.2m |
| Fixed assets | £3.3m | £2.8m | £2.1m | £1.6m |
| Current assets | £32.2m | £32.2m | £32.5m | £32.3m |
| Debtors | £4m | £2.8m | £3.2m | £2.6m |
| Deferred income | £859k | £821k | £208k | £425k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- −4.7%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 35.5%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £113k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- −£5.3k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 8.8%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 2.4%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 14.6%
- Money owed by customers. Low = customers pay quickly.
Balance-sheet signals
Year-on-year changes in filed balance-sheet items. They can hint at momentum (or investment) but are not revenue or profit and must not be read as such.
- Net assets
- ▼3%
- Now £31.2m
- Cash at bank
- ▼66%
- Now £1.9m
- Headcount
- ▼2%
- Now 159
- Deferred income
- ▲104%
- Now £425k
- Fixed assets
- ▼26%
- Now £1.6m
Deferred income is reported together with accruals in this filing (“accruals and deferred income”), so it is an approximate signal only.
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Asd Lighting Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Asd Lighting PLCthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (1)
- Rotherham United Football Club (Rufc) LimitedRev. £19.2m · Profit −£1.7m
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 30 Jun 2025 (profit −£849k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Dec 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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